@JustJules @CatLady43v3r @SkyeThere1 @toya @green_destiny
Thanks for playing marvelous mansion - horse harbor. I was very entertained by your choices and hope you had fun, too.
All in all, you got there and came back safely, which is more than can be said for plenty of poor souls. You definitely got some practice in persuasion and stealth and I suppose you learned that if you get bitten by lycanthropes, you may catch the disease. But in any case, all’s well that ends well.
Of course Kortak didn’t want to risk Conrat and his semi-motivated army growing and fulfil their plan of a werevasion, so he called a lot more adventurers who came prepared and, to put it gently, massacred them. You accompanied the 3 workers to a temple where they indebted themselves into servitude as a reward for a greater restoration spell.
Kortak asks you to sign a piece of paper that talks about fulfilling your duty, blabla. You get gold after signing it, so you’re quick to sign and uneager to read. Kortak does point out that the broken box doors in the stable were still broken, because the doors weren’t in the hinges, so you don’t get that particular payday.
You do get 120 GP each as promised, and as you meet for tea a few days later and talk about everything, he also silvers your weapons - just in case - with some silver he found in the main house (each of you can choose one non-magical weapon of choice that is silvered) . Apparently the lycanthropes have been roaming the grounds for a while and the Marvelous family was prepared. You get 20 Downtime days.
Kortak also tells you that he found evidence in the library that Master Marvelous - the first of the Marvelouses - built the Horse Harbour with the boat and reversed stream system because his kids loved the water and he thought it would be kind of cool for them to play there. As the years progressed, it was deemed increasingly unsafe and wasn’T commonly used, though it’s unclear how long ago the passage was abandoned.
Kortak does not end up finding any spell books in the library, but he did find a spell scroll: Absorb Elements. He is not looking forward to the cleanup down at Horse Harbour (but probably best to get it taken care of quickly or rats will come). And with that fun bit of information he sends you off to explore new things, avoid more fights and bullshit your way through near-death situations - onward.